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Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge

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Post by Ekaros »

TMWNN wrote: post #4
sexy_seedbox wrote: post #2

Feels like Getty has acquired all their big competitors.

Is this a defensive move, against AI taking over the stock image market?

I would also consider consolidation as move to cut costs. If there is no more growth or it is taken by AI, that is the next step to get line go up.

Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge

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Post by paxys »

Clubber wrote: post #17
paxys wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The current government did exactly that, and we voted them out.

The current government is still the current government. Not sure how that applies here.

For the next 13 days. It is a lame duck government.

Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge

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Post by Etheryte »

cloudking wrote: post #16

Anecdotal, but I haven't bought a stock image since Stable Diffusion was released. Edit: with Flux, you can't even tell the difference: https://blackforestlabs.ai/

There are plenty of businesses that think the same way and every time I see an ad with an image that's clearly AI-generated I steer clear of it. It looks cheap, hits the uncanny valley and is often a good sign of lowest effort possible.

Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge

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Post by infecto »

Etheryte wrote: post #23
cloudking wrote: post #16

Anecdotal, but I haven't bought a stock image since Stable Diffusion was released. Edit: with Flux, you can't even tell the difference: https://blackforestlabs.ai/

There are plenty of businesses that think the same way and every time I see an ad with an image that's clearly AI-generated I steer clear of it. It looks cheap, hits the uncanny valley and is often a good sign of lowest effort possible.

I am in the same boat, photos are here to stay at least in the short to medium term. It will most definitely change as we get better and better models that become photo realistic. I keep seeing the same themed AI generated images in tech blogs and it is tiresome, its just like how meme images were constantly used in writeups a decade ago.

Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge

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Post by cma »

Etheryte wrote: post #23
cloudking wrote: post #16

Anecdotal, but I haven't bought a stock image since Stable Diffusion was released. Edit: with Flux, you can't even tell the difference: https://blackforestlabs.ai/

There are plenty of businesses that think the same way and every time I see an ad with an image that's clearly AI-generated I steer clear of it. It looks cheap, hits the uncanny valley and is often a good sign of lowest effort possible.

I doubt you'll be able to easily tell from the outputs of frontier models for most stock image usages by the time this merger is approved.

Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge

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Post by Ensorceled »

Etheryte wrote: post #23
cloudking wrote: post #16

Anecdotal, but I haven't bought a stock image since Stable Diffusion was released. Edit: with Flux, you can't even tell the difference: https://blackforestlabs.ai/

There are plenty of businesses that think the same way and every time I see an ad with an image that's clearly AI-generated I steer clear of it. It looks cheap, hits the uncanny valley and is often a good sign of lowest effort possible.

"I can't afford real images of real people and can't tell these images are shit, but you can rest assured that I didn't take any short cuts on the product!"

Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge

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Post by martin_a »

DannyBee wrote: post #11
Ekaros wrote: post #9

No anti-trust here? Seems like their market share might be too unreasonable to me.

In the US this would not be enough - at a minimum, you'd have to show actual harm, like, for example, showing it has caused (or is very very likely to cause) higher prices for folks. I don't know enough about stock images to say for sure, but a cursory glance suggests Getty has not been raising prices outside of the norm over time. It would be a very hard case to win without a bunch of unfavorable data.

I think Getty, Shutterstock and Adobe Stock are _the_ stock image agencies. If two of them merge, wouldn't that be enough for a "market dominating position" and therefore enough to get somebody involved?

Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge

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Post by [deleted] »

Etheryte wrote: post #23
cloudking wrote: post #16

Anecdotal, but I haven't bought a stock image since Stable Diffusion was released. Edit: with Flux, you can't even tell the difference: https://blackforestlabs.ai/

There are plenty of businesses that think the same way and every time I see an ad with an image that's clearly AI-generated I steer clear of it. It looks cheap, hits the uncanny valley and is often a good sign of lowest effort possible.

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